Jack - "come on over and clean out my inbox every morning".
I assume you're joking, or using Windows*. Spam-filtering in 2005 is a non-issue in email as it is with Postal Mail. That is, you ignore it.

As for Martha, I gotta go with someone else who recommended that stocks be traded purely "As-Is", and 'Insider Trading' (which will always exist) be allowed to continue without the Feds bothering to police it.

* - If using Windows, yes, you will continue to suffer. Be sure to write "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in the comment line on your next check to Bill_Gates/Microsoft.

Scott: In this town, people think "spammers" are a threat, but criminally insane people in a grouphome next to a grade school, or the reality of the potential of a sleeper cell of people who think "infidels" are worse then spammers, these people are the real threat.

Which seems the more serious transgression:
1. Exploiting the internet by sending unwanted communications solicitous in nature - for personal gain ($750,00.00 per MONTH). Clearly violating anti-spam laws. [Nine year fed. prison sentence.] OR;
2. Blatant violations of California campaign finance law by SF City Commissioner diverting her real estate commissions to former Secretary of State Shelley’s campaign, and paying over $125,000.00 State grant money to “straw men” who donated the funds to the Shelley campaign. This followed by forged documents and witness threats to hide the transgressions.
[ she faces felony conviction from 16 months to three years in State prison.]
SF Chronicle 4/9/05 Julie Lee -
(http://sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/09/
MNGCUC5RD11.DTL)

Snail mail spam actually is what's keeping the cost of mailing a letter down to the unbelievable price of 37 cents. It's subsidizing our entire postal system, which is a good thing. So yes, I hate it when I have to buy an $80 shredder and waste hours every year getting rid of it, but at least it's doing some social good.

E-spam costs individuals and industry a ton of time and money every year. It has no redeeming social value whatsoever. Every legislature on the planet should outlaw it, with heavy penalties.

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 45
At this date last year: 117
Total run in 2016: 155
In 2015: 271
In 2014: 401
In 2013: 257
In 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269